Weekly Recap: April 9th-15th, 2018

Oh man, this week started out really well! But on Wednesday I came down with a bad cold and that kinda derailed the rest of my week so that was super duper annoying… Ugh seriously though, whatever this illness was has sucked and went through really weird stages. I was hoping it wouldn’t be too bad when Luke and I originally got it, but nope. It knocked us both on our asses for several days.

Monday:

3 easy miles

Started off my week with a little bit of 5k action! Nothing too exciting, but it was still a nice run. 🙂

Tuesday:

2 miles

35 minutes of stretching/foam rolling

Tuesday’s run was a little more exciting than Monday’s! Warmed up with a slow mile, did 10 reps of the cadence drill from Jeff Galloway’s “The Run Walk Run Method”, and then cooled down with a few more minutes of easy running. Eventually I’m probably going to stop doing this on its on, reduce the amount of reps I do, and use this as a warm up for speed work. But for now I’m having fun doing it on its own. 🙂

Wednesday:

rest day

I had started feeling kinda sick on Tuesday night, but I really got hit with it on Wednesday. Had a sore throat and just felt tired and crappy in general. So I spend the day resting and getting lots of kitty cuddles.

Thursday:

rest day

Still wasn’t feeling too great on Thursday. I think I was a little bit better, but not much. It was sunny and warm out so I took Lily for a short walk. Mostly because it sucks being stuck inside on really nice days, but also because I was hoping a dose a vitamin D would help my body to fight off this illness. Being sick is no fun. Anyway, I didn’t do that great of a job hydrating on Wednesday so I made a point to drink more water on Thursday. But of course I had to start my day off with some coffee, because caffeine. 😉

Friday:

rest day

I had a glimmer of hope on Thursday that I was gonna start getting better, but nope. On Friday I actually felt a little bit worse. Still had a sore throat, was tired, my ears felt kinda weird, and I got kinda dizzy a few times. Still no running, but Luke, who was also sick, and I did manage to run a few errands on Friday, including taking Finn to the vet to get his vaccines up to date. Haha at least someone around here has a clean bill of health.

Oh and the Oiselle leggins that I had to order twice because the UPS lost them the first time. Literally took a month, but I’ve finally got them and I absolutely love them! They’re super comfy, fit perfectly, and have SO MANY POCKETS!!!

Saturday:

I have no idea what kind of virus (because I’m assuming it’s viral) illness my 4 year old neighbor infected Luke and I with, but it’s been absolutely insane! For both Luke and I it started out feeling almost like an ear infection, then we were worried it might be strep because our throats hurt, our lymph nodes have been swollen, and Luke even had a fever at one point. Luckily that didn’t last longer than a few hours for him. And Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, I hadn’t experienced any kind of runny nose, congestion, or really much coughing or sneezing. But on Saturday I woke up with some insane chest congestion and a bit of a runny nose. I’ve officially banned all sick children from my house. I hate this so much. And it all would have been prevented if my neighbor would have just kept her sick kid at home.

Anyway, I’ve slept terribly the last couple of nights, and I didn’t even get out of bed until 9 am on Saturday. That’s pretty absurd for me, but I’m just so tired from being sick and not sleeping well. It’s pretty terrible. But when I woke up with chest congestion I knew I needed to get a few easy miles in to help clear me out a bit. Running usually does. So I did two slow, miserable miles on Saturday. They were not fun haha but I think they helped.

Sunday:

rest day

Ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh. This illness came, knocked both me and Luke on our asses and has pretty much kept me (not so much him though) there pretty much all week. It’s super fucking frustrating, especially since it all could have been avoided if someone would have kept a very sick and very contagious child at home. Really I’m just pissed that my week started out so freaking well and was going in a great direction and then that all came to a screeching halt when I got sick and could barely stand up for an extended period of time, let alone run.

Luckily I did wake up this morning feeling better. I think I might be on the upswing of this thing. I’m coughing/hacking/sneezing out all sorts of nastiness so that’s probably a good thing. All that coughing isn’t good for getting a restful night of sleep though, so that’s not helping my absolutely wonderful mood. But anyway, rest day today because Sunday is always a rest day for me anyway, and I figured another day of rest would do me some good. Spent the day feeling sorry for myself, getting involved with all of the hype surrounding the Boston Marathon (hey, it is our Super Bowl, right 😉 ), eating nutritious food, doing some light house work, and dying part of my hair purple again. I’m hoping I wake up feeling a lot better tomorrow, but I guess we shall see.

Total Weekly Mileage: 7.11

Oh man, that number makes me very sad…But there are some illnesses that you can run through and some you cannot, and unfortunately for me this one has been the latter. I’m obviously not happy about it, but I can’t do anything about it but continue on with training once I’m finally well again.

I hope you’re week has been great and that you’ve been healthy and happy!

Good Luck and have fun to everyone running Boston tomorrow! You’re all rock stars and we’re all rooting for you! 💙💛🦄